Sunan Ibn Majah
Sunan Ibn Majah 3478
حَدَّثَنَا أَبُو بِشْرٍ، بَكْرُ بْنُ خَلَفٍ حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ الأَعْلَى، حَدَّثَنَا عَبَّادُ بْنُ مَنْصُورٍ، عَنْ عِكْرِمَةَ، عَنِ ابْنِ عَبَّاسٍ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " نِعْمَ الْعَبْدُ الْحَجَّامُ يَذْهَبُ بِالدَّمِ وَيُخِفُّ الصُّلْبَ وَيَجْلُو الْبَصَرَ " .
Unreviewed translation. All hadiths in this collection are available in five languages. Titles and introductions may remain in Arabic.
Abū Bishr—Bakr ibn Khalaf—narrated to us: ʿAbd al-Aʿlā narrated to us: ʿAbbād ibn Manṣūr narrated to us, from ʿIkrimah, from Ibn ʿAbbās, who said: The Messenger of Allah said, ‘How excellent a servant the cupper is: he removes blood, eases the back, and brightens the eyesight.’
Notes and open questions — unreviewed
The three benefits are rendered as stated in the report; the wording is not expanded into a modern clinical claim.
قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ " نِعْمَ الْعَبْدُ الْحَجَّامُ يَذْهَبُ بِالدَّمِ وَيُخِفُّ الصُّلْبَ وَيَجْلُو الْبَصَرَ " .
يُخِفُّ الصُّلْبَ literally says ‘lightens the back’; it can be understood as relieving the back, but no more specific condition is named.
Should this remain a general statement that cupping eases the back?